Robins MEGA EPISODE (Nightwing, Tim Drake, Red Hood, Damian Wayne, Signal, History of Robins)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 346 minutes

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Summary

Today, we celebrate (for almost 6 hours!) our shared favorite character in all of comic book history: Robin! From the first Robin to the most recent we break down some of the most beloved Boy Wonders who have ever donned the pixie boots with some of our favorite legacy character-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:

GHL 21: Nightwing – Explore the life time of the character who defined the Dynamic Duo, Dick Grayson
GHL 65: Robin (Tim Drake) – Study up on the smartest Robin to ever deduce both Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson's alter-egos
GHL 155: Red Hood (Jason Todd) – Discover the tragic history of the first Robin who died and came back a villain
GHL 222: Robin (Damian Wayne) – Meet Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul's biological son, the scowly one
GHL 197: The Signal (Duke Thomas) – Follow the strange journey of the future Robin who never was
GHL 79: History of Robin - Live from NerdCon! – Jason & Ashley are joined live on stage by Omar Najam (writer Daredevil), and Mia Resella (creator Sam the Witch), for the ultimate Robin trivia game

Slide down the Batpole, jump onto the Redbird, and uncover in this epic celebration of all things Robin!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to geek history lesson. I'm Jason Inman. I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson.
0:08.4	Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto the podcast where we welcome you into the Batcave and we fill your head with everything you need to know to make the best sidekick turn ever because we are what?
0:19.8	A Canadian comic book writer and a TV writer from Kansas. Who else could know more about what it takes to be the Dark Night sidekick than us? That's right. You, yeah, you listening. Come over here. Walk over here. Yes, enter 5-9, into this code. This door will go up. We'll come in here. I'm going to hand you a utility belt. Take this grenade. Yes, I set a grenade.
0:38.1	You need a grenade against the Joker.
0:39.4	Come over here.
0:40.0	And now you're going to listen to all these episodes because it is time for you to become my Robin.
0:46.4	And this podcast is essential listening.
0:49.1	This is your training manual.
0:50.7	And Ashley, Robin, son, what episodes do they need to know to be my sidekick to be able to fight Clayface?
0:58.5	So many episodes.
1:00.4	I think this is in contention to be our longest running mega episode of all time.
1:04.7	They keep getting longer.
1:06.2	Oh, no, this is, this could definitely be the longest.
1:08.8	We are opening, of course, with the OG sexiest of all Robbins Nightwing. Yeah. By the way, this is this could definitely be the longest we are opening of course with the OG sexiest of
1:11.8	all robin's night wing yeah by the way this is episode 21 of geekistral lesson yeah we love we have a lot
1:17.7	of love for nightwing early early days this is the the start that episode is the start of
1:23.9	two long running geek history lesson jokes one is that dick graces is the greatest thing that Batman ever did. Which is correct. And two, that he is the sexiest man in the DC universe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's probably slept with everyone in the DC universe, including Superman. Absolutely correct. We are following that up with Tim Drake, my personal favorite Robin. From there, we're going to Jason Todd, then Damien Wayne,
1:47.1	all the Robbins.
1:48.1	Then Duke Thomas.
1:49.8	Whoa.
1:50.5	And then if there's still room in our editing file.
1:53.5	No, absolutely not.
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